Card Chain Challenge Reveal for April

 I find it so much fun making a card for someone somewhere else in the world.  I think we're making friends one card at a time.  

The challenge for the April Card Chain Challenge was to use at one of the options below, from Color Palette, Sketch Option, Theme Options to Product/Technique Options.  It's all your choice.  The new challenge for May is already up at Card Chain Challenge

I hadn't done any paper piecing for some time and I thought now is the time and I chose a Julie Nutting gal again. It's a 2014 copyrighted stamp set without a name and I searched for an hour to see if I could find a name and hopefully I found the right stamp name of "for you".   

Yes, I cut the dolls and dresses out by hand.

This is actually the first time I've used this stamp since I purchased it.  Shame on me.   The bees are a brand new set so I mixed some old with some new.  The lovely background is from an old calendar with such pretty pictures.  I thought it worked out well for a backdrop.

I cut up clear plastic from those take out clear plastic boxes you sometimes get from restaurants and keep them on hand for making clear sticks to back anything that needs a sturdy see-through base.  It worked out well for these ladies and the bees.  You can see them clearly here, but they really do blend in well in real life.

  

Another View

Supplies:

Julie Nutting "For You" Cling Stamp

My Favorite Things Honey Bees stamps & dies

My Favorite Things Outside the Box Level up die set

Clear plastic from clear restaurant boxes (make bees look suspended in air)

Background from old calendar

Copic markers

Papers - left-overs from other projects 

Vagabond die cut machine

I am entering the following challenges:

DL. ART "Anything Goes 

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything Goes #4

Crafts Galore Encore - "Anything Goes" #111

Ally's Angels  "Anything Goes"  #69

We Love 2 Create "Anything Goes" Challenge #4 My Favorite Things Challenge (Outside the Box die & bees - yes they are part of the Animal Kingdom)

Card Chain Challenge Reveal for August's Exchange

 I'm always up for the Card Chain Challenge and you can sign up now for August, but you only have until August 6th.  You can sign up here.  We'd love to have you join us.  Card Chain Challenge always includes color, sketch, theme & product/technique options.  You can see August's options below and then my card.

I chose stamping with a Julie Nutting doll that I can't find anywhere to identify this little gal that has a letter in her hand, a 2014 design.  The background panel was made years ago and feels like I stamped and stenciled with distressed inks on a watercolor paper.  This is a mini slimline card and seems to be a great size for the smaller Julie Nutting dolls.   

Inside of card with leftover strip of the background panel on the outside.

Supplies:

Julie Nutting Doll (hand cut)

Hero Arts "Crafty friend's" wood block stamp (sentiment)

Kat Scrappiness Mini Slimline Embossed Edge Die

Kat Scrappiness Mini Slimline Diamond Wire & Wood Grain Frame Die

Little B "Handwritten" (sentiment - hi)

Kat Scrappiness Ice Ice Baby Enamel Dots

Copic markers

Vagabond die cut machine

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Digi Choosday - "Anything Goes" 

Through The Craft Room Door “Anything Goes”

Colour Crazy - "Anything Goes" Week 34

Crafty Sentiments - "Anything Goes"

 

Card Chain Challenge Snail Mail

 What, oh what should I do?  Lots of choices.  See below - ALL those choices!

I chose Paper Piecing and I really love the way this card turned out.  I've had about 1/2 sheet of this designer paper (used for the doll) for a LONG time and finally was able to use most of it for the dress and boots of this Julie Nutting gal, Megan.  I cut both doll and dress by hand. 

I can't believe this paper worked out so well.  The entire dress is from one cut and the semi-foiled boots from another spot in the same paper.  The butterfly is left over (actually hanging out on my Ott-Lite) from a project for my daughter-in-law posted on my blog November 7, 2019. 

Close-up of Boots below

Supplies:
Prima Julie Nutting doll stamp Megan

Kat Scrappiness Slimline Diamond Wire & Wood Grain Frame Die 

Butterfly by Echo Park and Silhouette cut on my Cameo die cut machine

Slimline die - I can't find the original wrapping for the patterned paper die-cut

Hello! stamp - maybe Hero Arts ?  I have a bunch of cut-out sentiments in stash

Patterned papers in stash

Copic markers for the hair and skin tones

Cameo machine for the butterfly

Vagabond die cut machine for dies

January Choices With the Card Chain Challenge Group

 Choices, Choices, Choices.

Before I show you my card, I wanted you to see the choices I had to choose from.  I love these challenges - always some snail mail for me at least once a month - pretty snail mail too!

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Now for my card for my partner Helen G. in Ohio, USA!

I had a lot of fun with this card.  I first stamped the Julie Nutting image, die-cut with my slimline dies and colored the image in.  I like to know the surface I'm working with so that's why I usually die-cut my images before I color them.  I decided to stamp over the panel with some script and had found a bubble stencil that I knew I had to use.  I really like the effect of both stamping and stenciling.  

I had to stencil the envelope too!  LOL

Supplies:

Julie Nutting stamp from 2014

Hero Arts cling stamp - unsure of name of the stamp

Magenta Bubbles stencil

Kat Scrappiness Embossed Edge Nesting Slimline Dies

Sizzix friend die set

Copic markers

Distress ink Broken China

Vagabond die cut machine

His name is Aidan

I've been playing with all kinds of stamps this month.  Now for a Julie Nutting "guy", yes she has designed a guy and he's rather cool.  I found some papers that I thought were just right.  I die-cut a rectangle and then cut the top inward to create a tag from a Tim Holtz package.  I used a Tim Holtz Honlycomb stencil and a couple stamps from an old set to create this tag.  I'm loving this Hero Arts Unicorn ink too.

I used acrylic paint to paint over the honeycomb to make a design and add texture.  Paper piecing the shirt and pants was sheer fun!  An old Hero Arts stamp across the face gave the image some life.

I'm really quite pleased with this.  It looks just as good in real life.  And it was SO MUCH FUN!  

A FINISHED PROJECT!

FINISHED this morning!  My LSS, The Stamp Art Shoppe in Roseville, California, USA is hosting a contest and I usually don't do anything other than cards, but this time I wanted to do something more.

The contest must have a Julie Nutting doll.  This is like paper dolls for adults.  I had die-cut the doll and dress,then found some deep blue ribbon (almost black, it's so blue) that would make for a silky frock for the dear to wear.  The ribbon is pleated and about 11/2 inches wide.  I wrapped it around the doll until she had most of a dress on her.  I took Black Soot Distress Stickles and stickled the top of her black dress.quite heavily.  WOW... you can't see the glitter here, but it's quite amazingly glittery I gave her long hair plus bangs from the stamp and die set, "Halie".  Since I have more than one doll, I stole the hat and boots from another doll named "Priscilla".  Don't worry about Priscilla.  I can make her another set of boots.

I found the black chalk board at Michaels.  It's not only a black board, but the other side is a white board about 11 inches tall & 7 or 8 inches wide.  The two boards are held together at the bottom by about 6 inches of cording. I saw this and had my project thought out.  The beautiful flowers are from Hero Arts and the butterflies are from the new Hero Arts Butterfly die. Lots of fun putting this together.

Recipe:

Hero Arts Butterfly - DI078  (yellow butterfly from almost a buttercup yellow thick glitter paper, all      other butterflies are recycled from tissue boxes)

Hero Arts Blossom Cuts DI096

Hero Arts Hello Flowers CL774

Julie Nutting A4 Buff Paper Pad - page used for doll's body

Julie Nutting Tag Pad Hancock Park (tag)

Open weave 5 inch wide ribbons (Hobby Lobby in their fabric section)

Chalk Board stands upright and all materials held on by glue dots.

A Fun Project

Does anyone remember paper dolls?  Remember dressing up the paper dolls?  I vaguely remember them, but I was a tom boy and didn't really play with dolls.  Well, I guess I'm growing into the paper doll time of my life.  These Julie Nutting tags are 9 inches long and the doll is about 7 1/2 inches long.  This is Priscilla, a new Julie Nutting doll and my first attempt in handling the long legged gal and tags.  Along with the new doll, I used the Dreamweaver stencils Triangle Weave and Hot Air Balloon and a die, Leafless Tree.  I sponged the tree with Frayed Burlap and Vintage Photo - great combo.

I sponged Vintage Photo through the Triangle Weave randomly all over the card.  The Hot Air Balloon was used with paste and is colored with PanPastels.   Someone sent me some fine mesh and so I added several things to dress up the doll and the card.  I'm pleased with my first attempt.  I thought the stencils worked out wonderfully and I will be using more as I use the large tags to craft with.

See the hot air balloon peeping out from under the mesh.  The clothing, hat and boots are paper pieced onto the doll.  Lots of Glossy Accents on them too.

A last look at the gal and Leafless Tree die-cut. 

 A fun project!
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I am entering this tag in Simon Says Stamp - use paste